Possibly consider equity partnerships now rather then passive partnerships for a silent investor, and crest paper trail of engagement my investors.

Engage in your community. 8.

Then I would start listening to the podcasts here on Biggerpockets, read the member blogs and get engaged in the forums.

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I was engaged the whole time!

I have called Navy Fed before because I heard of a similar program but the Loan officer I spoke to did not seem well versed, he informed me that we would only qualify for their traditional loan, I am going to re engage with them though. 

Stay away from personally engaging in any transaction with your IRA, if all you have in your IRA is $10K hold off on setting up SDIRA, focus on growing your IRA balance and when you have enough funds in it to do an investment on it's own - then make the move.

But, if there was an entity formed (Especially Corporation S- or C) before the general search, you have an argument to deduct them as business startup expense (See below)A noncorporate taxpayer (individuals) not engaged in the business  can't deduct expenditures made in searching for or investigating a new venture.

@Michael Boyer So, I've been trying to schedule a date to meetup with the tenants to discuss the transition, but it's never a good time for them - work schedules, prior engagements, etc. 

Items are being addressed that I never new I could address until I engaged someone familiar with doing this.